Top 1200 Human Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life

When you go through abuse - the behavior - what happens is all behavior stems from faulty belief.

Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!

Somewhat paradoxically, parenting programs should focus on the behavior of the parents not the behavior of the children.

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of the leader.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.

Behavior is a virus. We spread our behavior to those around us, whether passively or on purpose.

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.

To study consumer behavior is to explore human nature at its most fundamental level using the modern world as its backdrop.

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

For a very long time, people have been saying to me, "What if you want to do this approach with every kid?" For a behaviorally challenging kid, you're parenting this way just to help bring the kid's behavior under control and to greatly reduce conflict. But you want to teach all kids the skills that are on the better side of human nature: empathy, appreciating how one's behavior is affecting other people, resolving disagreements in ways that do not involve conflict, taking another's perspective, honesty.

Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

There's nothing really connecting the behavior of the Nile, metallurgy, and the behavior of prices except that I had the mathematical tools to explain them.

If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.

Published in 1947, 'The Plague' has often been read as an allegory, a book that is really about the occupation of France, say, or the human condition. But it's also a very good book about plagues, and about how people react to them - a whole category of human behavior that we have forgotten.

The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven.

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.

Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.'

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall determine them. The first educational question will not be 'what knowledge is of the most worth?' but 'what kinds of human beings do we wish to produce?' The possibilities virtually defy our imagination.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune. The fact that we can make disastrous decisions even as we foresee their consequences is the great, unsolved mystery of human behavior. When you hold your fate in your hands, why would you ever make a fist?

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

There are absolutely ways to manipulate behavior, because our behavior is endlessly being manipulated by the world around us.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

The transitions from metallic to critical behavior and from critical to insulating behavior have been induced with a magnetic field, and from insulating to critical and then to metallic behavior with increasing external pressure.

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and nonviolent behavior.

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.

I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

My view is that friendship permeates human life and is involved in almost everything we think, feel, and do. For that very reason, there is no behavior that is characteristic of friendship. Two people can engage in the very same behavior - visiting someone in hospital, for example - and yet only one of them might be doing so out of friendship; moreover, friends can be doing absolutely anything together, even quarrel or fight. That means that it is difficult, if not impossible, to recognize a friendship simply on the basis of what people do.

The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.